MacDonald, Malcolm (2017) Editorial [in Language and Intercultural Communication]. Language and Intercultural Communication, 17 (2). pp. 85-89. doi:10.1080/14708477.2017.1293496

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Abstract

The relationship between language, actors and the specific social contexts in which they speak emerges as a prevalent theme in this issue. This is due in part to the mobilities of populations, amplified to varying degrees by the competing social forces of the 21st century: both the good, such as lifestyle and education; and the not-so-good, such as economic pressure and conflict. In various ways, the papers in this second issue of Volume 17 describe how this experience of mobility - both terrestrial and virtual – can vary in relation to the amount of capital, both economic and cultural, with which our sojourners travel: from Mendez-Garcia’s postgraduate sojourners in Spain to Park’s South-East Asian marriage migrants in Korea; from Lapresta, Huguet and Fernández-Costales’s inward migrants to Catalonia to Dong’s ‘空中飞人’ (‘flying people)’ in Beijing; from Chen’s Chinese students using social media in the USA to Akiyama’s eTandem intercultural interlocutors; and from Zhu’s university students in China and the USA to Koshiba’s bilingual secondary school pupils in Australia.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Language and culture, Intercultural communication, Sociolinguistics
Journal or Publication Title:	Language and Intercultural Communication
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1470-8477
Official Date:	27 March 2017
Dates:	Date Event 27 March 2017 Published
Volume:	17
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 85-89
DOI:	10.1080/14708477.2017.1293496
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	17 March 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access:	27 March 2019

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